Onze a l'Onze
Celebrating Henry's birthday started the day before with a cake at school. I was told that store-bought was the norm, which was good because I hadn't figured out how to make frosting without confectioners sugar yet. The cake was expensive - chalk that up to a learning curve about where to buy a kid-appropriate birthday cake, combined with no advance planning! But it was very artful, even with the French spelling of Henry:
From Henry....
For my birthday (11 on 11) I started the morning with a few hours of the Lego set I had bought myself the previous day after school. I finally extracted myself from the Lego long enough to eat breakfast and open presents, but was soon back at it. In the afternoon we got on the train to go to a fancy seafood restaurant, only to find out that the whole place was being used for someone's party. Conveniently there was another fancy seafood restaurant practically right next door and we ended up eating there after some of my convincing. We ate an amazing pot of lobster rice stew and Madeline and I had desserts of ice cream and sorbet.
